HOW TO OVERCOME TEMPTATIONS?
(SARASPUR EU)
Approach Question :-
Give me three names of your favorite food?,
Now imagine that the doctor told you no to eat that food, now If I bring that in front of you
and make you hungry in the morning and will not allow you to eat what will happen?
Somehow you will find a way to eat that food, even when it will affect your health.
Today our topic is like this,
● What is temptation?
○ Feeling that you want to do something even if you know that is wrong
○ Temptation is something when you have to choose between loyalty or
disloyalty to God.
Today we are going to 4 temptations.
1. Sexual Temptation :-
● Which kind of Sexual temptations do we have?
○ Sexual desires
○ Sexting with a girl
○ Flirting with a girl
○ Virtual Fornication
Now all Sexual temptation has its roots in Sexual desires. The model way to overcome
Sexual temptation is Joseph's Story that you have to flee From that. But u have a question
HOW CAN A PERSON FLEE FROM HIS OWN THOUGHTS?
So the question arises :- "What do I do with my Sexual desires?"
1. Know that Sexual desires or sex are Made By God For specific purpose :-
a. Read Genesis 1.28:- God commended Adam and Eve to grow and fulfil the
earth. God desired that Adam and Eve have children and they have children.
now one question I have for you is :-
Having Sexual Desires or having sex is Sin or Not?
It's not why?
● When did God commanded Adam and Eve to have children? (Gen 1.28)
● When did sin come into existence?( Gen 3),
● Sex and Sexual desires are gift from God to the human being and God has set
specific time to open that gift and sex's time is marriage.
2. Sleep peacefully before time comes :-
a. When God created Eve he made aram in deep sleep.
Some ways to fight with this temptations :-
1. Avoid tempting situations
2. Consider consequences
3. Use social media carefully
4. Choose your Friends wisely
5. Keep high standards
6. Do Not trust your hormones (dopamine) create your dopamine in other things
7. Read your Bible
Do Your Quiet Time
Share your temptation with God
Share your temptation with Your Believer Friend.
2. Temptation of Smoking, Drinking and consuming tobacco temptation :-
● Currently many Youth are consuming such things and they thought these will make
them cool but it will be sin.
What does the Bible say about this addiction?
1. 1 Timothy 3.8
2. 1 John 3.16
3. Ephesians 5.18
4. 1 Corinthians 3.16
Ways to overcome :-
1. Tell your friend about your decision to stop using cigarettes, alcohol and tobacco
2. Go to the friend when there are no involvement of such things
3. Have a plan that what will you do if the temptation is there
4. Remind yourself that not having addiction will not make you old or weak
5. Know the health concerns
6. Read your Bible,
Do your Quiet Time
Share your temptation with God
Share your temptation with Your Believer Friend.
3. Temptation of Virtual Fornication :-
What is Fornication?
Immoral Sexual Intercourse between two people not married to each other
What is Jesus's definition? (Matthew 5.27)
1. To avoid this we have to guard our eyes :-
a. David didn't sin because he only saw bathsheba but He had a thoughts and
images in his mind and that led him to lust and then the act of Fornication
b. One Study in 2012 published in psychological science says that the more
teens were exposed to a sexual content in movies the earlier they start having
sex.
Eyes are a door to our mind so we must guard it.
2. To avoid this we have to guard our mind:-
a. Matthew 5.28 says the Fornication in mind.
b. Cross check your thoughts with your Bible and reject them
c. Know that other person is also God's creation
d. Do Not trust your hormones (dopamine) create your dopamine in other things.
e. Read your Bible,
Do your Quiet Time
Share your temptation with God
Share your temptation With Your Believer Friend
4. Temptation Of Pornography and Masturbation :-
● 89% Watching porn
● 54% Of 13 age teens are watching porn
● 28.5 billion porn videos are there
The root cause of Masturbation is a porn video, sexual desires and virtual Fornication.
How not to overcome it?
1. Do Not work on external things before working in internal
a. Some Christians deal with the external and not the internal. They fight sin
on the outside, but neglect the deeper affections of their heart. They have
Covenant Eyes, or some other accountability program, on their devices in
order to assist their battle against the flesh.Only doing external
things,throwing your laptops, mobiles away will not make you Porn Free.
b. Other Christians deal with the internal and not the external. They have
good quality QT prayers and all but their phones are filled with such things.
Then How to fight?
1. Know that sex is for marriage
2. Use social media algorithm carefully
3. Consider the consequences(Porn will not affect you only, it will affect your Social
relationships)
4. Get an accountability partner (whenever you watch porn or do Masturbation you have
to tell them)
5. Replace watching porn with Good habit
6. Know your root cause (boredom or stress)
7. Share your sin
How to overcome Masturbation?
1. Know the root cause of Masturbation (Reel, photos or porn)
2. Try to overcome from that root cause
3. Self control guide :-
a. Never touch the intimate parts of your body except during normal toilet
processes.
b. Avoid being alone as much as possible. Find good company and stay in this
good company.
c. When you bathe, do not admire yourself in a mirror. Never stay in the bath
more than five or six minutes -- just long enough to bathe and dry and dress
AND THEN GET OUT OF THE BATHROOM into a room where you will have
some member of your family present.
d. When in bed, if that is where you have your problem for the most part, dress
yourself for the night so securely that you cannot easily touch your vital parts,
and so that it would be difficult and time consuming for you to remove those
clothes. By the time you started to remove protective clothing you would have
sufficiently controlled your thinking that the temptation would leave you.
e. If the temptation seems overpowering while you are in bed, GET OUT OF
BED AND GO INTO THE KITCHEN AND FIX YOURSELF A SNACK
f. Pray, Read your Bible, listen Christian song When you have such thoughts
Application :-
Only one cause of all these temptations is one temptation and that is :-
"NOT SPENDING TIME WITH GOD"
Ways to spend time with God :-
1. Make God your priority in a busy day
2. Read the Bible (start from your favourite book and then start from Matthew To
Revelation)
3. Talk to God through Prayer
4. Do Quiet Time by seating with God
5. Join Bible Study or Church
6. Fill your mind with Good Christian Music
